[interlude: a piece of paper left in the library]

[forgethertoo]

[a piece of paper, lightly creased, can be found on the floor of the library underneath the table where Aornis was seated; the handwriting is neat and flowing but a little slanted]

Aleksander (?)
Annie (?)
Asmodean (?)
Aziraphale
Clarissant
Claudius (?)
Crowley
Enjolras
Galahad
Grantaire
Gu Xiang (?)
Janet
Laertes [circled]
Lan Wangji
Lancelot [circled]
Luo Binghe (?)
Magnus (?)
Mothwing
Nightingale (?)
Nina (?)
Qi Yan (?)
Ragnelle
Sagramore [circled]
SecUnit (?)
Shen Yuan
Susan
Temeraire
Tress [circled]
Wei Wuxian

[[Assuming multiple people can pick up this paper and look at it — if they even see it! Feel free to write a reaction comment.]]

Comments

[timebethine]

Laertes is just putting away a book on pottery glazes when he spies the piece of paper on the floor. At first, he only means to put it back on the table--but then a circled name catches his eye.

His own name.

He frowns as he scans the rest. He can't think of any categories that would lead to his name, his husband's, Lancelot's, and Tress's being circled. Quickly finding a blank sheet of paper, he copies down the list and all of its annotations, then sets the original sheet back on the floor so that no one will know it's been touched. (It's been some time since he was embroiled in an intrigue, but the son of Polonius knows the value of other people's documents.)

Whatever this is, Claudius will want to see it.

[lightbearinglord]

Lan Wangji spends much of his time in the library, and he is highly attuned to the existence of clutter, but when he kneels to pick up and dispose of this particular piece of clutter, he pauses. This is the table at which Aornis was recently seated, which may mean nothing -- but he notes it. He notes, too, every name and every alteration to every name.

Externally calm, he memorizes the paper in its entirety before returning it to its place. He will need to speak with Claudius about this.